So i didnt get a stimpack from lootboxes since octobre...i was already thinking of buying one. Tomorrow i leave for holiday so i just wanted to do some games before i leave. I got 2 stimpacks from 2 boxes!

Why do they have to be activated immediatly

If you Alt + F4 before hitting accept it closes the box. It won't reroll or anything, but you can open it again when you want to apply the stim.

Finally did my placement matches for the season. I managed to reach Master 1000 with 7-3 in Hero League and I started off by winning 5 games in a row which made me play against Master players only. 2nd time that I have managed to reach this rank.

and people wonder why high level hero league game quality is so meh, when people who struggle to get to master in previous seasons start getting dumped in there immediately after 10 games

What an unbelievably stupid comment. I have been a Diamond player in literally every season and rank 1 in Preseason. I have played with and against Master players on a regular basis and play on average 300+ games a season unless I am too occupied to do so.

What an unbelievably stupid comment. I have been a Diamond player in literally every season and rank 1 in Preseason. I have played with and against Master players on a regular basis and play on average 300+ games a season unless I am too occupied to do so.

May I ask what rank you are, exactly?

While you may be a borderline Masters player, his point is valid. Lots of people have been placed too high this season, in pretty much every league. I'd say if you are a high Diamond player every season getting a lucky streak and shooting up to Masters isn't the end of the world, but a lot of people who don't belong have ended up there too.

While you may be a borderline Masters player, his point is valid. Lots of people have been placed too high this season, in pretty much every league. I'd say if you are a high Diamond player every season getting a lucky streak and shooting up to Masters isn't the end of the world, but a lot of people who don't belong have ended up there too.

I have had more bad luck over the seasons than good. Have played the ladder extensively for the last 2,5 years, so I know perfectly well how messy it can be. Tons of people being misplaced on the ladder is nothing new. It has happened in every single season. Sure, this season has had a bad case of it as well, but because of how the system has been since its inception there have been tons of people who are in Masters just because of luck.

Him using my placement in Masters as an argument is ridiculous when I have been playing at around that level for ages and also play with other Master players because of the contacts I've made from playing on the ladder. This is nothing like having Gold/Platinum players suddenly getting put in Diamond/Master League because of some win streak in placements and then abandoning playing for the rest of the season just to keep their account at that mmr for the next one.

Him using my placement in Masters as an argument is ridiculous when I have been playing at around that level for ages and also play with other Master players because of the contacts I've made from playing on the ladder. This is nothing like having Gold/Platinum players suddenly getting put in Diamond/Master League because of some win streak in placements and then abandoning playing for the rest of the season just to keep their account at that mmr for the next one.

There is much higher skill difference between diamond/master player than between gold/platinum. Jumping from high diamond into master is akin to jumping from low gold into low diamond. It happens every season with different players, i'm not judging your performance or question you skill - but it's simply what happens in leagues - people get misplaced and they drop out into whatever league they belong to in next ~50 games

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I have been a Diamond player in literally every season...and play on average 300+ games a season

Originally Posted by Frozen Death Knight

2nd time that I have managed to reach this rank

you make my point for me - 10 placement games placing players into a higher position compared to what they can usually achieve themselves after playing 300+ games in a season is just...

i'm not trying to take anything away from someone getting to masters for the second time, its great that you are proud of it - the point was that getting there through placements (unless you usually end the season as GM) should not be a thing in the first place

There is much higher skill difference between diamond/master player than between gold/platinum. Jumping from high diamond into master is akin to jumping from low gold into low diamond. It happens every season with different players, i'm not judging your performance or question you skill - but it's simply what happens in leagues - people get misplaced and they drop out into whatever league they belong to in next ~50 games

I think you misread what I wrote. I was talking about Gold or Platinum (specifically low Platinum) players getting put in Diamond or Masters from placements, not the differences between a Gold and Platinum players vs Diamond and Master players. That said, I agree that the difference between a Diamond and Master player can be greater than between Gold and Platinum, but I have also seen Master players every season that are only there because they got a lucky win streak. It is very common to have people reach their rank and then just sit on their mmr for the rest of the season, since there is no incentive to defend their placement on the ladder.

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Originally Posted by Dizzeeyooo

you make my point for me - 10 placement games placing players into a higher position compared to what they can usually achieve themselves after playing 300+ games in a season is just...

i'm not trying to take anything away from someone getting to masters for the second time, its great that you are proud of it - the point was that getting there through placements (unless you usually end the season as GM) should not be a thing in the first place

I did not make your point for you. Placement matches can and have put people in lower leagues than they actually play in normally, including myself, so the system is not as cut and dry as you make it out to be. I have been put in Platinum after doing placements several seasons despite always reaching Diamond without much issue, with a few exceptions. One such instance was the second season after they introduced placement matches. My mmr tanked so hard that I went from playing in Diamond 3-1 the season before to being in Platinum 4 after losing 21 games out of 28 the first few days of playing (including the placement games). It got so bad that I even had Travis from Blizzard look into my data when he heard about it on Reddit over a year ago. It took a few hundred games before the mmr got adjusted to where it used to be because of how messy the matches were. The way that mmr has been distributed for so long has made it so that the climb is very grindy and slow, so playing a few hundred games to reach a higher rank is not an anomaly. One loss can ruin an hour of work if you are about to get promoted to another rank, so you can easily get stuck if your win streak breaks. The point of the performance based mmr system was to cut down on said grind, since the current system is very flawed in more ways than one.

While I do agree that people shouldn't really be put in Master League from placements to an extent, I do think that should primarily apply to people who are new to the ladder and players from the lower leagues. If you have been in Master League in the previous season I don't see a reason to prevent them from being put in Masters immediately if they win most of their placements. If you happened to have been in Diamond before, then getting a shot at Masters is not the end of the world. If they did not deserve to be put in that rank they will eventually lose enough games to be put back in Diamond. I am however of the opinion though that the game needs mmr decay so that there is a reason to play more than just placements, especially in Diamond League and up. The game needs to seed out players who don't take the ladder seriously enough to play at least somewhat regularly.

Lost over 700 points last night in HL because I pressed the cancel button despite the game not indicating that a match was about to start, but it still penalized me for "dodging". Here's the story more in detail on Reddit, since I don't want to type out several paragraphs on it and having to express how frustrating this is.

Just fuck this game, cancerous shit. From Diamond 3 to Platinum 2 in one day and keep sinking because apparently I suddenly become retarded.

For 160 games I am sitting at comfortable over 60% winrate, it clearly must have been pure luck to get there. Suddenly I get a horrible losing streak and start to gain 190 points and lose 215 points, working as intended. Seriously, FUCK THIS GAME.

Quick match, both teams on level 22, dragon shrine. Our dragon is attacking the enemy core, each auto attach does 12% dmg. Core is on 9% (one auto attack left to win). He then decides to auto attack malfurion once, dragon dies, he dies, we lose.

Ah, another fantastic game where I have to soak experience and clear enemy camp pushes as a motherfucking solo Warrior because nobody else other than a Support bothers with that. Then I get the blame because Mr. Butcher thinks a whole world resolves around his precious meat stacks.

And of course I get another -215 points for that, thanks! Will I ever climb back to Diamond this way?

Just fuck this game, cancerous shit. From Diamond 3 to Platinum 2 in one day and keep sinking because apparently I suddenly become retarded.

For 160 games I am sitting at comfortable over 60% winrate, it clearly must have been pure luck to get there. Suddenly I get a horrible losing streak and start to gain 190 points and lose 215 points, working as intended. Seriously, FUCK THIS GAME.

Why would you keep playing? It's almost never a good idea to keep playing after 2-3 losses in a row, especially if they're bad games. Even if you took a break after a few losses, if that happened again and you were at like 6 losses in a row for the day you should stop completely.

Quick match, both teams on level 22, dragon shrine. Our dragon is attacking the enemy core, each auto attach does 12% dmg. Core is on 9% (one auto attack left to win). He then decides to auto attack malfurion once, dragon dies, he dies, we lose.

I can top that. Level 23, Dragon Shire as well. We get Dragon, bring their core down to 33%, wipe with several people not attacking core; enemy team gets next Dragon, brings our core to 97%. We kill three of them. Rush to their core and again people try to farm hero damage and kills. When their Sonya respawns we wipe again with the Core at 13%. They easily end. Insults were had.

Then almost the unluckiest game ever. Opponents got the first two Immortals, one with less than 2% and the next with less than half a percent shields; 'won/lost' a teamfight with us losing two and them losing one player, our three survivors basically full health and their four survivors get away with a sliver each. At least we got the third Immortal with almost full shields and stomped them. Looking at siege and hero damage, we should have completely dominated them; I guess I would have freaked out if we had lost this.

Also had a ~ 27 minute win where our Hanzo, who died only three times, having his level 1 quest progress at - take a guess - ZERO. Meaning he stacked a maximum of 9 redemption stacks (you lose three when dieing) within almost half an hour.